New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-24
TIE TALK OF THE DAY.

"The Rritish Trade Journal" says that the new
steel steamships being constructed By tho John Elder
& Co. firm for The North German Lloyd arc to be OF
5000 tons each. with guaranteed maximum speed Of
twenty knots hour; and of course. they are being
built in oror " the Cunad mail steamers OIL
tho ocean"
Omaha Man-vhat is the price Of parquet seat
Ticket ssner- Twenty no cents.
"iow about ,hc iaioohy ~
well ] won lother about tho expense. Give mo
n seas high enough up 20 SEQ over the hats"
ayes. sir, gallery seats arc s3'-tOmaha World.
Tho now steamships that being built in English
hip yards be fitted with triple expansion engines
This patrn OF engines effect saving Of from eighteen
twenty-five per cent in the consumption Of fuel
n thing not ~ be despscd In these days Of keen
competition and low freight
Between the acts with the amatcurs-1 Arc you never
troubled with stage fright Mas Gassbaggel"
Why. what an you b. thning Of Mr. softsope
ayes. know; but understand Rachel used to
have panic every evening when she first went OIL
"AhI but l am not Rachel flown Topics.
That Ia q good story they telling Mt the
expense OF tho Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks OF Boston.
Hero the way IL The genial Autocrat
fishing ono day In the yacht Of wellknown character
Of Gloucester named Captain Cook. who follows
the sea for livelihood. In conversation Captain
Cook informed Dr uolnrs that the last fisherman
who hal hired his loaf WIS DR.. BROOKS. ale was
very pleasant company" Captain Cook kind
enough 20 say "but he swOro good deal for clergy
man" "Ho did what !" inquired DR.. Holmes, sghast.
"Ho swor," stoutly reiterated Captain Cook "Oh.
nonsense. don't believe it, said tho Doctor. "Well,
what do you call this :" inquired the old fisherman.
"Ho got paddock his hook and he had q great
deal Of trouble TO get ID near the boat. At last no
landed him and said said l. Well, for o paddock,
that fish pulled d-n hard Yes he did, said DR..
BROOKS Now. whats that but swearing" The only
trouble out the story Is that Is simply adapta
ton. revival. Tho original yarn upon which 1t was
bull, celebrated ts centennial the year that Anania
and Sapphra dissolved partnership. II has main
tanned vitality since at tho expense Of several
OF clerylnen, and Ii likely ~ run until the
OF doom unless tho supply Of doctors of divinity
runs out
She was built that way. Little Mabel stood beside
coorcd Aunt Chloe, as that person was engaged IN
mamma Said little Mabel afterward, "what
makes Aunt Chloe stand up and snoro f'-CTld-Blts
Sir william Turner. Professor of Anatomy in the
Uni, erslty OF Edinburgh, in recent lecture on
"Whaes. their structure and habits" referred to q
point ought TO be OF considerable interest to the
boar Of cxerts that reported upon the deficiency Of
horsepower Of tho dispatch boat Dolphin. namely
tho power exerted by the tail OF large whale
Ho had asked wellknown shipbuher TO assist him m
arriving at tho power which must be exertcd by
largo whale in order to acquire speed OF twelve niles
an lour They measured d large whale which had
recently stranded at Longniddry. 1t was eighty feet
long. weighed about scventy-four tons and had
tail OF eighteen twenty feet across tho extreme
edges Of It's Hanges. With these data IL was cal
culated that such whale. in order to attain speed
OF twelve mics an hour would require to exercise
propelung force OF las horse power.
81 minlstered once" said Bishop Huntington. ain
q church where pew stood for o million OF dollars.
There were generous men and sanity women among
them not a few. But IL only happened once In nine
years that, after | had announced an Offering for
following Sunday, person stopped ter the service
TO say, i must be absent next Sunday and wish you
to take my gilt now She not Samaritan, but
sho cook, and she was to be absent to cook u
rich mans dinner and had some reason To suspect
that her gift larger than his. "-tLiving Church.